For those who don't know, FAT64 (aka exFAT) has the same storage capacity as NTFS, but without stuff like journaling and per-user security which can slow down transfer speeds and make it hard to access files on externally-connected disks that get used on multiple computers.

For those who don't know, FAT64 (aka exFAT) has the same storage capacity as NTFS, but without stuff like journaling and per-user security which can slow down transfer speeds and make it hard to access files on externally-connected disks that get used on multiple computers.

Don't give me that look. You must have run into situations where you had files on an NTFS-formatted hard drive that couldn't be read on another computer without having to take ownership of them first, but formatting in FAT32 wasn't an option because the disk was too big for it, not to mention NTFS-formatted disks don't like to be unplugged before being "stopped", even when write-caching is disabled. FAT64 solves both problems. I've already tried it on a couple of large portable hard drives at work and it works splendidly.